Police investigate death of Nunavik woman

Man arrested in early morning incident in Inukjuak

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Police are investigating the Nov. 30 death of a Nunavik woman.

Kativik Regional Police Force officers were called to a home in Inukjuak on the region’s Hudson Bay coast at 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning, where they found a woman without vital signs, Quebec’s provincial police, the Sûreté du Québec,...

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GN hopes new Nunavut jail will foster restorative justice

“Most of all, our idea was to reflect the population and to reflect the culture”

STEVE DUCHARME

Designers of the new Qikiqtani Correctional Healing Centre say they hope the territorial jail will mark a new era of restorative justice in Iqaluit when it opens in 2020, amidst demands for a correctional system respectful of Inuit values.

Nunavut review board keeps close watch on derelict mine

Contractors began Jericho cleanup work earlier this year

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At the same time staff from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada kept an eye on the abandoned Jericho diamond mine this past year, staff from the Nunavut Impact Review Board kept an eye on INAC, the review board said Monday in a monitoring report that looks at cleanup work done this year at the...

Canadian military seeks underwater sensors for Arctic surveillance

Proposed sonar would be "orders of magnitude" less noisy than U.S Navy system blamed for beaching whales

JOHN THOMPSON

Underwater drones equipped with high-tech sensors could one day patrol the icy waters of Canada’s eastern Arctic, to help keep an eye on the region’s growing shipping traffic—and to be on the lookout for foreign submarines.

It’s part of a plan that Canada’s Department of National Defence calls its...

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Nunavut diamond hunters drill deeper near Iqaluit

Prospectors at Peregrine Diamond Ltd. reported yesterday that a diamond-laden kimberlite pipe at the company’s Chidliak site near Iqaluit contains a resource that runs double the depth of previous estimates and may also contain more valuable gems.

“We could have worked with them to find another location"

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(Updated Nov. 29, 09:45 a.m.)

Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada says it’s “deeply disheartened” and “confused” about the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s last-minute plans to postpone its only Nunavut hearing, in Rankin Inlet.